Cigarette and all...
Posted on 10/31/2017 8:52:29 AM PDT by w1n1
A Bridge Too Far was awesome.
Cigarette and all...
Platoon
We need to beat up whoever said that crap
I’m going for Longest Day for the scope of it
Patton runner up
Lawrence of course
Small movies Duellist and Das Boot and that IRA Barley movie
Master and Commander
And of course Cross of Iron for Coburn
Battleground, it won an Oscar.
No one called your dad a liar. Vulgar language was not encouraged, Foul language was and is a Hollywood encouraged perversion. I knew many WW II vets and none of the had a foul mouth. I served from 55 to 65 Army and Navy and foul mouth was certainly not common.
The Sapphires
Cross of Iron by Sam Peckinpah, is the best. Zulu was pretty badass too!
I had the hots for Kathleen Turner
This will put a stop to that ailment...............
Top on my list is ...
“To Hell and Back” starring Audie Murphy.
This was perhaps the only movie where the where the real-life war hero (Audie Murphy) portrayed himself in the movie.
He’s not just some Hollywood star, AUDIE MURPHY WAS THE REAL DEAL - A LARGER THAN LIFE WAR HERO.
Awards: Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Stars (2), Bronze Stars (2), Purple Hearts (3), and several others.
Audie Murphy personally killed an estimated 240 German and Italian soldiers in WWII.
He was easily one of the deadliest warriors and greatest soldiers of all time.
If you get the chance, read the book of the same name that the movie was based on. The movie adheres very closely to the book, but the book has a lot more in it than made it to the screen.
Bridges at Toko Ri. William Holden, Grace Kelly, Mickey Rooney, and other great actors.
“Where do we get such men?” is the quote from the commander on board ship, when he learns of the fate of Harry Brubaker.
Concur..outstanding character study
I was in the Navy 61-65 and foul-mouthed was the order of the day. We’d even break words apart and stick a curse word in the middle. It took some time after getting out of the service to stop swearing unconsciously.
“Kwai” might have been the first of maybe 3 movies my
father took me to see and I wasn’t yet six years old.
Pop was a WWII paratrooper who fought against the
Japanese which is why he would have wanted to see it
even tho he was not keen on movie going. He never
missed a war movie or western on TV. “Kwai” stuck with
me through the years and I read the book, did book
reports on it in at least two elementary school grades.
Today, even tho I have the DVD I will watch it when
comes on TV. Maybe I could be called a cult follower
but, damn, it won best picture of 1957 if my recollection
is correct. It was more than a war movie in my book.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
“If you get the chance, read the book of the same name”
12 O’clock High?
In Harm’s Way
As I said my father doesn’t cuss. But when you get into a war, you may be surprised. His stories stick in my mind. I went to an all boys school, umpired professional baseball, and worked in men’s prisons for 28 years. There was a lot of cussing and I’m not talking about the inmates.
Go Tell the Spartans, a little-known movie starring the great Burt Lancaster about the Vietnam War in the days when American soldiers were still “advisers.” Much better than that cartoon movie 300 (though there is a connection between the two films based on the title).
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